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Sorting vegetables from weeds at Web 2.0 expo
By roystahl | April 29, 2008
Trade shows are filled with eye-candy and slick pitches. The trick is to sort through the marketing hype and get to what is real. What makes Web 2.0 expo also unique is most of these companies haven’t been around for more than a few years at best and many launched at the show. MANY will not be there next year.
Weeds:
Microsoft Silverlight is still a weed. If you are into video and cute stuff. Develop with a team of designers and programmer, then it might be a beautiful tomato for you, but for RIA it is a weed. I hack for a development environment. A weak set of back-end hooks into a real database.
Intel Mash Maker - What a sad weed Intel is growing. It is a browser plug in - first barrier to entry is when you have to download a plug-in. Next it only works in Firefox. I know of some browser limiations what would make what they are doing near impossible in IE, when I asked a few probing questions, I got dirt thrown at me. I brought up some logistical issues (You could use the plug-in to cover-up website ads) and was told that “Users aren’t suppose to do that” Hmm Intel might have to learn the hard way that users will do what they want, not what they are suppose to.
… To be continued … If you want to see more of what I thought of web 2.0 expo, you will need to say tuned. I might pull up some more weeds. I might disclose my garden picks for ripe vegetables.
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